WOMEN, MINORITIES AND EUROPEANS HARDEST HIT!

At Sean’s suggestion, I read Jonathan Freedland’s article “The World’s Verdict Will Be Harsh if US Rejects the Man [the World] Yearns For”.

My first thought was:

“‘the Man [the World] Yearns For’–Please, get a room, people!”

“Hello? Is this the Paris Hilton? No, I know you’re not Paris Hilton. I mean, is this the Hilton in Paris?–Nevermind. Look, I’d like a room for myself and Barack Obama. Other guests? Why, yes–the Entire Population of the World will be staying with us as well. What’s that? Sure–the Bridal Suite will be purr-fect! And could you send up some champagne with six billion glasses? And some extra pillows?”

Here in the States, we’ve got “Sex in the City”. In Europe, they’ve evidently progressed to “Sex With an Entire Planet”. Used to, it was “Earth Girls Are Easy!”; now it’s “The Entire Earth Is Easy!”

Except that it’s not really an entire planet. It’s not even an entire continent–when they say “the World”, they really mean “Europe”–and it’s really not even all of Europe. That is just a debater’s trick which is used by Democrats here as well.

For example, there are sizable minorities and sometimes majorities in Europe that are often pro-US, anti-EU, pro-death penalty, pro-life and against the Islamization of Europe.

Rep. Heather Wilson (R.-NM) recently gave Rep. Bob Wexler (D.-MD/Mother-in-Law’s-Condo-in-Del Boca Vista, FL) a very public spanking, where she proved that even European governments are hardly all stupid, frothing anti-Bush monoliths like, say, the faculty at Colombia. Or the staff at the Guardian:

For America to make a decision as grave as this one – while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars – on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, “historical decline”.

‘Historical decline’? Decline, thy name is Europe.

Mr. Freedland has obviously never asked himself “Why?” Why does it matter to Europe who we elect? It matters because the US is the world’s leading nation. And why is the US the leader of the world? Because we took the best of Europe, and discarded the rest.

We chose the glory of Jerusalem, our Judeo-Christian heritage. We took Athenian democracy and Roman republicanism. We chose the Rule of Law, the Rational Enquiry of the Enlightenment, the free market capitalism of Dutch traders and the Scottish thinkers which rewards innovation and achievement. We wrote an enduring yet flexible Constitution that respects the individual. We took the English example of a confident and muscular military that patrolled the seas to the benefit of all.

In other words, we’ve chosen everything Europe seems hell-bent on running away from. Freedland wants us to abandon the dynamism of America for the Overweening Weenie-ism of Europe. In a way, though, it’s understandable.

In the last hundred years, Europe has been whipsawed by all the “isms”: the feudalism of the Russian peasant, the Caesarism of the Kaiser, Marx’s International Socialism, Hitler’s National Socialism, Godless atheism, humanless humanism, childless feminism, peopleless enviromentalism and now cultureless multi-culturalism.

It “ism” any wonder that they just want to pull the Nanny-State covers over their head and hide.

But Americans don’t hide from history. You either make history or you are made by history–and whoever we choose in this election, America made that choice long ago.

Of course I know that even to mention Obama’s support around the world is to hurt him.

Go ahead–he can take it.

Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the “candidate of Europe” and making him seem less of a patriotic American.

“Seem”?

But what does that say about today’s America, that the world’s esteem is now unwanted?

That you are unworthy? That you don’t speak for “the World”, you meglomaniac? That ‘world esteem’ is like self-esteem–a ’steeming pantload? That Obama’s epic “Ich bin ein Community Organizer”-speech failed epically?

If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us – and, make no mistake, we shall hear it.

And you shall respond in the customary manner: The Strongly-Worded Letter!

Under Mr. Freedland’s rules, Europe gets to pick its leaders…and ours, too! Why, he’s almost like a Karl Rove, roaming the globe, and imposing regime change on unwilling, faraway countries!

It was thoughtful of you to deliver Europe’s non-negotiable demands, but we already let Europe pick our leaders once, Mr. Freedland. We got tired of that back in 1776.

You just got tired.